Chapter 116 The Sutra of Total Annihilation of the Dharma (1/2)

Zhao Xiaoyu stared closely at the lady boss’, Zhou Ling’s, exposed skin; it was still silky smooth, but she noticed that the skin sagged slightly. Light wrinkles even appeared between her brows. ”You are aging,” she sighed.

The lady boss casually removed the jade hairpin on her hair and aimed it towards Zhao Xiaoyu. Even though her skin had started sagging, it was still as clear as white jade. It was hard to tell whether she complemented the jade, or was it the jade that complemented her beauty.

The jade hairpin did not travel at a frightening speed, and there were no glaring lights either. However, it made Zhao Xiaoyu felt as though there was nowhere to hide in this big wide world.

Wind rose indoors, but the wind extinguished within seconds. Clouds appeared and dispersed. It was not that her spells malfunctioned, but it was because they were undone the moment they were produced.

The reason why the lady boss was aging, was because she was at the Degenerate Age. At a Degenerate Age, no one could attain Dharma.

She finally managed to find a hint of the true meaning behind Degenerate Age in the secular world.

In the end, the jade hairpin struck Zhao Xiaoyu at the middle of her brows. There was no blood, and the jade hairpin fell.

On the other hand, the lady boss wrapped herself in a red silk scarf with her slender legs exposed. Her porcelain white skin could still be seen now and then.

Between Zhao Xiaoyu’s brows, there was glowing white light in the shape of a lotus flower. She was giving off the vibe of a Water-Moon Guanyin, and seemed extremely holy and delicately beautiful.

”Senior Apprentice-Sister, you have finally mastered the basics of ”The Sutra of Total Annihilation of the Dharma”, congratulations!” Zhao Xiaoyu smiled as she spoke.

The Sutra of Total Annihilation of the Dharma was a set of secret martial exercises of Luoism. Allegedly, at the pinnacle of cultivation, it could annihilate every spell. In the end, one could conjure up a place of enlightenment for the Degenerate Age, any holy deities who got caught in it would have their erased and all of their cultivation experience would turn into naught.

The lady boss had not reached this state yet, it was just that she had understood a hint of the meaning of Dharma. The consequences would be her taking up on the pain of the meaning of Dharma and to go through the aging process gradually.

In the realm of the Degenerate Age, there were no deities of any sort. The World-Honoured One pitied the pain and suffering of the masses that were trapped in the endless reincarnation cycle, so He manifested Himself in the world and subjected Himself to the cycle of life, and eventually passed away at the age of eighty.

”I could not even break through the Dharma cleanly, what more the non-existence of Dharma. You had already entered into the profound state of ”without Dharma and without mindfulness”, and you are just one step away from the Nine Lotus characteristic of phenomena. What difficulty could you possibly be facing that you must seek for myself?”

Zhao Xiaoyu bowed and reached for the jade hairpin. She dusted the jade hairpin and said, ”You are still keeping the jade hairpin with you.”

”Back then you loved fighting with me and ended up breaking my jade hairpin. Master got me a new one, even though it is just an average item from the secular world, but I could never let go of it,” the lady boss said as she looked at the jade hairpin in Zhao Xiaoyu’s hand with a gentle expression.

”Regardless of how we fight now, master will never come back,” Zhao Xiaoyu spoke gently, as though she was reminiscing, or had ceased her longing. Dao was having emotions even though when one had none, Dao was not having emotions even though when one had any; real or fake, the lady boss could not differentiate the two.

She knew that Zhao Xiaoyu was not here for the old days or for her hidden scar, no one would understand as well as her how scary her Junior Apprentice-Sister was.

”Speak up, what are you here for?”

”Do me a favor, kill someone for me.”

”Who?”

”The Empress of the Da Zhou Dynasty.”

”That is not someone whom I am capable of killing.”

”You just have to try, even if it is just once, but I hope that you can try your best.”

”I will do it for you, with one condition,” the lady boss pondered on her options for a while, and finally agreed to do it.

Zhao Xiaoyu seemed to have expected it and did not seem particularly affected.

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